Missing Menu items (Access 2000)

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I’m trying to help someone who is missing several items on the menu bar. They only have File, Window and Help available in the menu bar. I can’t right
click on anything either….

When you search on restoring your toolbars etc you have to click on Tools, etc…. which I DON’T HAVE……

I was told this happened while adding a form to start up. ex: Tools, Startup, then change Display Form/Page to be the form you want to open on start up. Once they put something in there they lost all tool bars and menu bars….Any ideas?

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Yes – there are things in the start-up form you get that will turn off menus and so forth. Try holding down the shift key while opening the database – that prevents the start-up form from being loaded (unless they have disabled use of the SHIFT key – then things get interesting). That should let you see the Tools/Startup menu and fix the problem.

If they did turn off use of the SHIFT key, about the only option is to import everything into a new database. That assumes that you don’t have security settings set to prevent importing. Hopefully your case will be the easy one above.

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